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Campus ministry report 
approved by the 213th General Assembly
13-June-2001
GA01107

Campus ministry report 
approved by the 213th General Assembly

by Emily Enders Odom

LOUISVILLE, June 13 - "From a log house to a log-on password," reads the
preface to Renewing the Commitment:  A Churchwide Mission Strategy for
Ministry in Higher Education by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), "the
church has kept [its mission in higher education] alive by adapting new
strategies for outreach to successive generations of students."  The 213th
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) today acted to affirm
and to ensure the continuation of this 275-year tradition of fostering
ministry to students on college and university campuses by approving
Renewing the Commitment.
	The Assembly, at the Committee on Evangelism's recommendation, disapproved
a related overture, 01-2 from the Presbytery of the Twin Cities area.  In
the judgment of both the General Assembly Council and the Advisory Committee
on Racial Ethnic Concerns, the concerns of the overture were dealt with
fully in the Renewing the Commitment report.
	"In this age when the church wants desperately that the best and the
brightest consider vocations in ministry, and the world needs the presence
of the church," said the Rev. Mark Orten, a minister commissioner from the
Presbytery of New Brunswick and the Presbyterian campus minister at
Princeton University, "it should not be lost on us in this culture that the
traditional college campus becomes the back door of the church."  He urged
the report's adoption.
	As a former campus minister in the 1960s and 1970s, former moderator
Syngman  Rhee also rose to speak to the approval of the campus ministry
strategy.  "I hope we will be able to continue to support the higher
education ministry and campus ministry," he said, "and that will be a sure
sign of the future of our church."
	In other business, the Assembly confirmed new members of the Board of
Directors of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Investment and Loan Program
(PILP), confirmed the election of Kenneth G. Y. Grant as president of PILP
for a new four-year term, and approved the deliverance and articles of
incorporation of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mortgage Corporation.  The
Assembly Committee's vice chair, the Rev. Trudy Morphew, described the
latter as a move to establish the legal framework for a corporation
dedicated to the increase of funding for church growth.
	The Assembly also moved to recognize, at the committee's recommendation,
the recipients of the Higher Education Award and Honors and the Sam & Helen
R. Walton Awards for New Church Developments presented by the National
Ministries Division of the General Assembly Council.

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